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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 42
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Job repents in dust and ashes—He sees the Lord with his eyes—The Lord chastises Job’s friends, accepts him, and blesses him, and makes his latter end greater than his beginning.
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Then</span> Job answered the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and said,
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I know that thou canst <sup>a</sup><a href="job/42/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Works of.">do</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="job/42/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Matt. 19: 26.">every</a> <i>thing,</i> and <i>that</i> no thought can be withholden from thee.
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Who <i>is</i> he that hideth counsel without knowledge?  therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too <sup>a</sup><a href="job/42/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 139: 6.">wonderful</a> for me, which I knew not.
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Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
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I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
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Wherefore I abhor <i>myself,</i> and repent in dust and <sup>a</sup><a href="job/42/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 2: 8; Matt. 11: 21.">ashes</a>.
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&#182; And it was <i>so,</i> that after the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> had spoken these words unto Job, the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me <i>the thing that is</i> right, as my servant Job <i>hath.</i>
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Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt <sup>a</sup><a href="job/42/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 1: 5.">offering</a>; and my servant Job shall <sup>b</sup><a href="job/42/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 20: 7.">pray</a> for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you <i>after your</i> folly, in that ye have not spoken of me <i>the thing which is</i> right, like my servant Job.
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So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite <i>and</i> Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> commanded them: the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> also <sup>a</sup><a href="job/42/9a" mark="a" type="C" title="Gen. 19: 21; TG Probation.">accepted</a> Job.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> turned the captivity of Job, when he <sup>a</sup><a href="job/42/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 5: 44.">prayed</a> for his <sup>b</sup><a href="job/42/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Friendship.">friends</a>: also the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> gave Job twice as much as he had before.
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Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
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So the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="job/42/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 26: 12.">blessed</a> the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
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He had also seven sons and three daughters.
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And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.
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And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
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After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, <i>even</i> four generations.
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So Job died, <i>being</i> old and full of days.
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